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I'm looking for a tool to convert ASCII-Files from a
Unix-Server to a NT-Server. Could be a problem between 8-bit
to 16-bit, because we have some special letters in our
language (0x8e 0x41     # AE wird zu ?).

Thanks for all information about this problem

Mike

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ASCII is a 7-bit code.  Maybe you are referring to text files, that
might contain 8-bit characters.  In a WWW context, and in the Latin-1
region, the recommended coding is iso-8859-1.  If you simply use normal
transfer methods to transfer text files, there should be no problem.
Any method that is apt for performing cross-platform transfers of text
files should take care of this for you automatically.  For example,
Internet FTP.   This should be true for other platforms too, Macs and
IBM mainframes..., it isn't limited to the two that you are discussing.

Quote:> Could be a problem between 8-bit
> to 16-bit, because we have some special letters in our
> language (0x8e 0x41        # AE wird zu ?).

If you want to do the work yourself, (for example because you have
cross-mounted file systems with no inherent character-code translation)
then I would recommend "free recode".  Use e.g altavista to find it.

However, if you expect problems with the handling of 8-bit characters,
due to unfamiliarity with the procedures or carelessness by authors, it
may be safer to use HTML &-notations (&entityname; or &#number;)
instead. The choice is yours, really.  All three character
representations are technically valid in HTML, and well defined for
those characters that are in the repertoire of Latin-1 (i.e excluding
&#number;-values in the range 128 to 159 decimal).  In HTML4.0 you may
also refer to characters in the entire Unicode repertoire (and some
browser versions will even display some of them correctly ;-)

gruesse